Pump



Jan. 1, 924 Lg H. A. JOHNSON PUMP Filed July 24 1920 Patented dan. ll, i924.

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application led July 24, 1920. Serial No. 398,764.

To a-ZZ whom t may concern.

Be it known that I, HENRY AUGUST JOHN'- soN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pumps, ot which the following is a specification.' 4 f This invention relates to force. pumps, and especially to pumps adapted for injecting boiler compoundinto steam boilers. The main objects. of the invention are to provide a pump for this'purpose of simpliied form having few and inexpensive parts and capable of operation for a long period without overhauling or repairs.

An illustrative embodiment of this invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- F ig, 1 is an aXial section of the pump.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a perforated retainer plate for the spherical check valve.

Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is asection at 4-4 on Fig. 1 and shows the plan of the inlet port.

To provide a successful pump for handling chemically active substances such as boiler compound, it is necessary to design the piston foruse Without a lubricant or any of the usual non-metallic packings. It is also preferable to provide a piston and cylinder of quite small diameter in order to produce a pump which is inexpensive and not bulky. For this reason a special design of piston is necessary for receiving the split piston rings. These, if of substantial cross section cannot be expanded over the piston into grooves therein without injury to the rings. To avoid the necessity of such expansion of metallic piston rings, the piston shown has an end portion which is reduced in diameterwi'th respect to the normal diameter of the piston in order to receive the piston rings without necessitating their expansion. This reduced portion ot the piston may be threaded at its end to receive a holding nut for the piston rings, and alternate rings are made solid in order l to prevent leakage past the adjacent ends of the split rings.

In the construction shown in the drawings, the pump includes a frame consisting of a casting l, having a cylindrical bore or piston chamber 2 Which is provided with an inlet port 3 and an outlet port 4. The

piston 5 is arranged for actuation by connections 6 operatively related to almoving part of some device actuated'by the' engine or the like (not shown), receiving power from the boiler. The outlet port 4 is provided with a valve adapted to prevent back flow toward the pump cylinder, which valve is preferably in the form of a ball 7. When the piston is moved forward towards the outlet port, the close-fitting body of the piston serves as a check-valve to close the inlet port 3. When the piston is withdrawn, the outlet valve 7 is closed against its axially apertured seat 8, and the suction of the piston 5 produces more or less of a vacuum in the cylinder until the piston proceeds far enough to open the inlet port, whereupon a charge of fluid to be pumped or injected rushes forward and is received into the chamber 2 ready for forcing through the discharge port 4 upon the return of the piston.

The inlet port 3 is cup-shaped with a multi-perforate bottom 9 (see Fig. 4) and v is threaded to receive the supply tube 10.

The discharge port 4 communicates with a valve chamber 11, the outer end of which is provided with a perforated removable closure disk 12 resting on the shoulder 13. Said disk is secured in place lby the fitting 14 to which the discharge pipe 15 is threaded. Said tting 14 is secured to the hollow stem 16 by means of the threaded clamp 17. The ball valve 7 fits loosely in said chamber 11 and readily permits the material pumped to pass outward between it and the wall 16.

The outer end of the main cylinder is provided with a stuiiing box 18 and packing 19 which is held in place by the end plate 20. Said plate is secured by bolts 21.

The piston 5 to which this invention is mainly directed comprises a body portion fitting the bore 2 of the cylinder 1, and at its lower end terminates in a portion 24 of less diameter than the body part so as to receive the metallic piston rings 22 and 23 without injury to these rings by attempting to kexpand them over the full diameter of a piston into grooves with which a piston is usually provided. The split rings 22 alternate with solid rings 23 which are of the same diameter as the body part of the piston. The split rings by expansion serve as usual to compensate for wear on the cylin- .der Wall .and .leakage past the opening between the .ends of .each split `ring is pre- Ventediby the intervening solid rings. The piston rings may be retained in place by means of a nut threaded to the end of the reduced part 24 of the piston.

In operation the piston is reci rocated by any desired means. The valve is normally kept closed by. the. pre,ssure..in.tlie boiler connection 15. When the piston 5 is Withdrawn, as in. Fig. l, the Vacuum .formed in'thecharnber 2 causes yfluid to rush in at 3 VJfrom the v source' of vboiler compound. Then when the. piston isthrust forward the port 3 is closed therebyy and sulioientpressure r,is generated yto rforce the liquid .out past the Valve 7. and into the .boilenconnection .tube 15.

v .Although but one specilioy embodiment of this invention.l has beenlierein shown and described, it.. Will be understood that nu- `rnerousl detailsof the construction shown vinay be alteredor omitted .Without departingfrqm the. `spirit of `thisiny ntionas defined. by the followingclaim.

.I Claim:

In a force pulnpwadapted for feeding duced axiall etens'ion of said rod in combination with Va. `seriesyofL alternately .arranged ,seldtand'fsplt rings and means 0n the outen end of. ysaidextension to secure vsaid rings deinountably,the )said split rings .being .naturally soniewliatv kexpansive but g sui ciently ,cqmpressbleradially toperinit `,foreing .them into. .thee boreC of the ...pump .when

in place on said extension, and said.,rnain body. Apart, beingadapted to Aservons apheckyelve: when said pistonrod is adyanced.

,Signedat this .21vstfdayfofA July,

HENRY-AUGUST JoHNson 

